Chapter 15: White Cloth and Birthday Rites
Jin Peng walked towards the bathhouse.
He is very happy with his current life.
But who wouldn't want to enjoy life like this?
Most people just don't have the conditions.
Survival is already extremely difficult.
But I don't have the energy to enjoy it.
It's a pity that no matter how happy it is, it can't make Jin Peng wait for the ultimate happiness.
Although he is very bold when he drinks.
Gambling money will never be deducted or contracted.
I also do my best when looking for a woman.
But he was still very lonely in his bones.
It's like an empty shell.
It can only be filled with the hustle and bustle of the wine shop, the noise of the gambling house, and the ** of the woman.
Otherwise, it will be like a walking corpse.
Friends are something else.
When he was with his friends, he could temporarily suppress his emptiness.
In fact, this emptiness often comes from longing.
What you miss, you can't get.
No matter how much drink, how much money, no amount of women, it can't make up for it.
There was a room in the bathhouse for him, the master of the priesthood.
The only good thing about this room is that it faces the sun and has a small window.
No one would open the window in the shower.
But Jin Peng will.
Not only did he have to take a bath, but he also had to enjoy the sun.
Especially with such a rare good weather as today.
Not to be missed.
When a person is bathing, there are no friends, no drinks, no sieve cups, and no women.
Even the hot water felt like it was invading his empty body little by little.
This emptiness is spiritual.
No matter how toned the body is, it can't resist.
In fact, he is not unpicky about girls.
It's that no matter which girl he sees, the same face comes to mind.
The consequence of this is that it doesn't matter which girl you find.
He folded a new white towel neatly into a small square and placed it on the edge of the tub as a pillow.
Then lie down comfortably.
Get ready to have fun.
Although the loneliness in my heart cannot be dispelled.
But today is his birthday after all.
Or try to be happy.
He stretched out a leg and kicked the window open.
The sun shone on the water of the tub, sparkling.
He stared at it for a moment, feeling dizzy.
He simply closed his eyes, as if he was taking a nap.
But suddenly, he opened his eyes again.
Then he laughed.
"I didn't expect a man to take a bath, but someone still peeked!"
Jin Peng said.
As soon as he finished speaking, a figure was reflected through the thin window paper.
"There are many women who take a bath and watch it, but they must all be men. There are few people who take a shower and see it, but it must be a woman. ”
A woman's voice rang out.
"Wouldn't a woman peek at a woman taking a bath? If you meet a woman who is more beautiful than yourself, I don't believe that women don't look at it. ”
Jin Peng said.
"If you meet a woman who is more beautiful than yourself, it is not enough to just look at it. ”
The woman said with a sigh.
But she never leaked a straight face.
A silhouette is also reflected on the window paper.
"What more than to see?"
Jin Peng asked.
"If her breasts are taller than mine, if her waist is thinner than mine, and if her face is better than mine, then I will destroy all of this!"
The woman suddenly became fierce.
"In this way, you are almost in time to be the number one flower destroyer in the world!"
Jin Peng said.
"Why? I'm not that bad, am I......?"
The woman said.
"Because although I haven't looked at your body carefully, judging from the silhouette on this window paper, your chest is not straight, and your waist is not thin enough. As for the face...... I can't see it, so I won't say it for now. ”
Jin Peng said.
"But did you know that a good face can make up for all the rest?"
The woman asked rhetorically?
"I don't know. Because I already have the most beautiful person in the world in my heart. His face is incomparable, and his chest is very straight, and his waist is thin. ”
Jin Peng said.
"But you've never gotten her once, and I've been with you for I don't know how many years!"
The woman said angrily.
I slapped the window to pieces with one palm.
Sawdust and window mullions fell into the tub.
"Haha...... Everyone else bathed in flower petals. And I soaked in the confetti of wood, which was a lot of fun. ”
Jin Peng was not angry.
Instead, he looked at the mess in the bathtub and said.
After all, the woman showed her face.
Not only did she show her face, but she also rolled over through the window and went straight into the bathroom.
Jin Peng raised his eyes and looked.
I found out that she obviously changed into a new dress today.
The light blue ten brocade makeup flowers are sleeved jackets, with a honey-colored moon skirt that is just over the knee and half an arm, and she is wearing a light blue cloud brocade gown.
Most of the neat green silk is scattered, only a chic Hanyan hibiscus crown is tied up at the back of the head, and a mutton fat jade five bats Ruyi hairpin is inserted on it.
The two lotus arms were wrapped around the outside, without the slightest concealment.
The waist is embroidered with a white bead thread tassel mesh belt, and the feet are wearing lake blue patterned thin-soled shoes.
This woman is plump and peugeot, peach cheeks and apricot face, charming and enthusiastic.
A melon seed face with a hibiscus face, eyebrows and vegetables, and it looks like he is only sixteen or seventeen years old from his eyes.
But in reality, he was already thirty-five.
The liveliness and innocence of a young woman and the maturity of a young woman are both in him.
She bent down to pick up the wood and confetti from the Jinpeng bathtub.
Then he threw a lotus lotus-colored and silver thread embroidered lotus scented bag into the water.
"Are you satisfied?"
The woman asked.
Jin Peng took out his hand from the water and played with the sachet.
"Such a good thing, give me a bath, I'm afraid it's a waste......"
Jin Peng said.
"Isn't it even worse that such a beautiful person as me came to serve you in the bath?"
The woman said.
stared at Jin Peng's body for a long time, and his face was slowly stained with a layer of red.
"You're not wearing clothes!"
The woman turned and said.
"Do you wear clothes when you're in the bath?"
Jin Peng said with a laugh. "Then I advise you to put on it quickly. ”
The woman said.
"I haven't soaked enough, why should I get dressed?"
Jin Peng asked.
"Because you can't take a quiet bath anymore. ”
The woman said.
"It's good if it's not quiet...... Isn't it sullen to be quiet?"
Jin Peng didn't pay any attention to the woman's words.
The woman suddenly turned around again, took out a wooden box, and threw it into the tub.
The wooden box is not tightly closed,
After being thrown into the water, it slowly floated.
A trace of blood oozed from the edges.
"What is this?!"
Jin Peng was shocked.
Hurriedly pick it out of the tub.
In the blink of an eye, I got dressed.
The woman watched and sneered.
"Look, isn't that just getting dressed?"
Jing Peng did not speak.
Instead, the wooden box was scooped up from the tub.
When I opened it, I saw that there were ten thumbs inside.
There is also a flower rope tied to each finger.
"Now you understand what I meant by letting you get dressed?"
The woman asked.
"Still don't understand. ”
Jin Peng shook his head.
Slowly buckle the wooden box.
"There are ten fingers in them, which belong to ten people. At least two or three finger-to-finger owners know you very well. The remaining seven or eight are all guests you invited to this birthday banquet. ”
The woman said.
"No matter how familiar I am, I haven't gotten to the point where I can tell who it is with a thumbs up. ”
Jin Peng said.
"Yes, but they're all missing thumbs. In this way, I can't lift my chopsticks and I can't hold my wine glass. ”
The woman said.
"Even if what you say is true, it's just one hand. If they wished, they would use their other hand. ”
Jin Peng said.
"Don't you care about the friends you've invited?"
The woman was a little angry.
"It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't believe in you. ”
Jin Peng said with a sigh.
"What's more, I think that after leaving Zhongdu, I didn't make any enemies. ”
Jin Peng returned the wooden box to the woman and continued.
"Why don't you believe me!"
The woman slammed the wooden box to the ground.
The ten fingers inside suddenly splashed in all directions.
"Because you've lied to me so many times!"
Jin Peng said.
After saying that, he began to pick up the ten fingers one by one and put them back into the wooden box.
Then I took a scoop and began to scoop up the water and rinse the entire bathroom.
As if the woman didn't exist.
But the woman gritted her teeth and refused.
She kicked the box over again.
At the same time, ten bright lights flashed in the air in his hand.
Ten spike-like hidden weapons came out of their hands.
Nail those ten fingers neatly to the bathroom wall.
Then through the window where she had entered, she flew out again.
"They're coming for you! I've killed ten of you!"
The woman's voice could be heard from afar.
"I knew you were lying to me......"
Jing Peng said with a wry smile.
Those ten thumbs really weren't his friend's.
but his enemies.
Although he couldn't think of why he still had enemies.
But he knew that the woman's last words should not have been lying.
What's more, his friends are also first-class martial arts masters.
Where is it so easy to have a thumb cut off?
"Poor Jin Peng...... Why do you always have people who can't get along with you? Obviously you don't ask for anything, you just wait for death. ”
Jin Peng looked at the ten fingers on the wall and said very sadly.
but he was pitying himself.
That's when it happened.
The wall of his bathroom crashed to the ground.
In the smoke and dust, he saw at least five figures.
"How did you find it?"
Jin Peng was not surprised at all by the appearance of these five people.
On the contrary, I am concerned about why these people can find themselves so accurately.
"The whole town of Yangwen knows that you came here to take a bath. ”
One of the five said.
"I did walk around town, but I didn't tell anyone I was coming to take a bath. There was only one person who knew I was coming to the bath. A woman who had just come out of here. ”
Jin Peng said, pointing to the broken window.
The leader was silent.
When a person's lie is exposed, either they can quickly make up for it with another lie, or they can only remain silent.
It seems that he has clearly not yet made up new lies.
"So the woman told you, right?"
Jin Peng asked.
The leader nodded.
The smoke receded.
Only then did he realize that these five people were more or less disabled.
Some people are blind in one eye.
Some people are missing an arm.
Others even have a pair of iron feet.
It looks extremely funny.
Jin Peng couldn't help but laugh out loud.
The five men had apparently come to trouble him.
He should have responded calmly.
Because he did come to take a bath.
But he didn't even bring his own sword.
Especially for people who are physically handicapped like this.
If you laugh at their disability.
It was a much more painful thing than killing them.
But Jin Peng just couldn't help it.
For he had already seen the origin of these five men from these mutilations.
"I didn't expect you to come out alive...... Should I praise you for your luck, or should I blame the boys in prison for suddenly becoming so gentle?"
Jin Peng said.
This sentence obviously made the five people even more angry.
As soon as Jin Peng's words fell, the energy that was drumming around them once again made the dust that had just settled under their feet fly again!
In fact, Jin Peng didn't see the origin of these five people at all.
He's just betting.
Because he really doesn't have any mortal enemies.
Yes, it can only be the people he offended when he was the chief of the Zhongdu Investigation Division.
If they are lucky enough to catch fire, they will naturally come to seek revenge.
If he was still in the Zhongdu Investigation Division, he would have 10,000 guts to pick them up, and he wouldn't dare to do it.
Even if you swagger in the middle capital, it's the same.
But this is the town of Yangwen.
It's not down, though.
But compared to the middle capital, it is indeed a place where crows fly away hungry.
So it's a great place for revenge.
What's more, he also blames himself.
If so, stay quietly in the station building of the Investigation Division in Yangwen Town.
But no one will know.
But for this birthday, he invited all the friends he had met in the past few years.
Under word of mouth, it is known to everyone.
It's no wonder that these people will come to the door.
"Since you know that we are, then you know that we and you will only die. ”
The man at the head said.
"I know...... I know...... It's just that you're not dead yet, so why do you think I'm going to die?"
Jin Peng said.
"Because there are five of us. ”
Said the man at the head.
"I'm afraid it's more than that......"
Jin Peng said.
"Of course it's not all! How many people you put in that prison back then, how many people will come today!"
Said the man at the head.
He was blind in one eye.
That's why I always like to tilt my head when looking at people.
This made Jin Peng feel very tired.
Because I looked at him, I couldn't help but tilt my head.
So he simply sat down.
Support your cheek with your hand.
Put your arms on your knees again.
In this way, although it is still biased towards this head, it is much more comfortable than before.
"There are many people who have been sent to prison. If they all come, the entire Yangwen Town will not be able to fit it. What you're going to say is someone who can get out of prison alive!"
Jin Peng said.
"That's right. ”
Said the man at the head.
"When you think about it, you're really lucky!"
Jin Peng said.
It's a little emotional.
"We're all people who have already died once, and you've ruined our whole lives. So even if I want to die with you in the end, I'm not afraid!"
Said the man at the head.
He held a large knife with a long handle in his hand.
He slammed the hilt of his knife into the ground and said.
Obviously, this knock has added a lot of momentum to him!
But it added a lot of jokes to Jin Peng......
Only this time he held back.
He didn't laugh.
Heroes don't suffer immediate losses.
All five of them were outlaws.
And he was unarmed.
If you are really in a hurry, you will still suffer the loss.
"But you've got ten dead. How lucky do you think it is that someone who is lucky enough to get out of prison alive is this fluke?"
Jin Peng asked.
At the same time, he pointed to the ground.
The wall collapsed though.
But those ten fingers were still nailed to the shattered wall.
The leader saw the ten fingers, and his expression twitched slightly.
"It's people who die that don't matter. The five of us who really have the power to take your life are still the five of us. ”
Said the man at the head.
But when these words were heard in Jin Peng's ears, he was a bit strong and capable.
"So you're going to let me die in this ruined bathroom......? My eight characters belong to fire, and finally dying in the bathroom is really in line with this heavenly principle. ”
Jin Peng spread his hands and said fearlessly.
"Dying here? It's a little too comfortable for you! We've already chosen a place for you to bury your bones. ”
The leader said with a sneer.
"Don't talk about it yet...... Let me guess...... It must be very high! Because high places are usually very eye-catching. That way more people will see that I'm dead. But it's better to kill me tonight at the birthday party, when the guests are all here. So that you can make a name for yourself, and all my friends will see that I'm dead. Besides, it is indeed a wonderful thing to kill the birthday boy at a person's birthday banquet! In this way, my birthday and death date will be the same day after the next year. Am I guessing right or not?"
Jing Peng said.
The leader was somewhat speechless.
Because Jin Peng said everything about their thoughts.
That's exactly what they planned.
If you are looking for a person to seek revenge.
Killing him on his birthday would have been a wonderful thing.
Especially with so many friends of Jin Peng as an audience.
If you kill Jin Peng so quietly and lifelessly.
Speculation will only increase.
But when I think about it, I would never think that they did it.
Such revenge is not satisfying at all.
So this is also the reason why Jin Peng has no fear.
He had known for a long time that these people were not going to do anything here.
will only kill yourself at the beginning of your own birthday party.
But when his birthday feast starts, it is he who has the final say.
Therefore, when he will die, how he will die, and whether he will die or not, isn't it up to him to decide?
As long as you understand the key to cause and effect behind many things, it is not terrible at all.
What's more, tonight's birthday banquet is his friend.
As long as it is his friend, I am afraid that no one wants to watch Jin Peng being killed like this.
The woman from before.
Jin Peng didn't invite her.
The uninvited person was able to help him eliminate ten troubles.
How could the rest of the people who were invited to the banquet stand by and watch?
At least not the Blackbird.
It's just that Jin Peng doesn't want to involve his friends.
If he knew, he would definitely prevent the woman from solving the trouble on his behalf.
Those who seek revenge must see themselves before they will give up.
As a result, before the revenge-seeking master could see it, he died inexplicably.
Even if you are a ghost, you are not reconciled......
Jin Peng is not superstitious though.
But when he thought of his birthday today, there were ten people who died unwillingly for him.
It's a little awkward in my heart......
"Let's go!"
Jing Peng stood up and said.
He didn't want to keep himself awkward.
Since these five people are not here to kill themselves, they will still live according to their original plan.
"In three hours, you will die in the inn!"
Said the man at the head.
After saying that, he turned around and left with the other four.